The role I interviewed for was Sr. Staff Security Researcher. The overall process was smooth and quick. I applied through an internal referral and also directly via LinkedIn. Initially, I applied for two positions. My timeline was as follows: - D+0: Saw job op...
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My onsite interview consisted of several parts (My tech screen interview experience was shared in https://www.chillinterview.com/experiences/fb48a28d-c727-4728-880e-fa28ffba2b3f) **Collaboration Interview:** I discussed the SOTA (state-of-the-art) in my resear...
This describes my recent phone interview experience at OpenAI Research. **Round 1: General Coding (1 hour)** I had to debug a buggy job scheduler in Python, focusing on data races, deadlocks, lock contention, and the rate limiter implementation. I needed to wr...
I had a phone screen, followed by an onsite consisting of three rounds. I didn't have a positive experience in the project presentation and behavioral rounds, and I'm unsure why I was rejected. **Round 1: Phone Screen** The phone screen was very simple. I was...
I was asked to design an image feed without like/comment functionalities. The interviewer provided the APIs and very detailed requirements. The interview focused on infinite loading, offline support, and testing strategies.
I had three rounds during my onsite interview. **Round 1: Phone Coding** I was asked a question on quick select. The discussion focused on different approaches and how to choose the pivot. I was asked to implement one of the methods I discussed. **Round 2: Cod...
I had a screening round involving a design question about a bookstore. During the onsite interview: - Coding: The question seemed new and involved string pattern matching. Given two strings, use the index of one string to represent the other. For example, if a...
I recently had a phone screen with OpenAI. **System Design:** I was asked to design Slack, focusing on the send/receive message functionality. The interviewer asked detailed questions, including how to handle cold starts and the trade-offs between message orde...
The interview consisted of two main parts: a coding round and a system design round. In the coding round, I was asked about KVStore serialization and deserialization. There were two follow-up questions: 1. What if a single file cannot accommodate all the data?...
I had two rounds for my interview. The first was system design, and the second was coding. **Round 1: System Design** I was asked to design an API to control access counts for different version models in ChatGPT. If the access count is exceeded, a toast should...
